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The Man Without a Body

Suspense · June 22, 1943 · 29 min · 4,723 words

The transcript of “The Man Without a Body”, an episode of Suspense first broadcast June 22, 1943. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Suspense plays Suspense free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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spends here again to introduce Columbia's program suspense in our starring Hollywood cast tonight a mr. John Sutton who appears as a young English doctor Jim Knowles who knew a great deal more than he admitted concerning the strange events which we are about to relate and mr. George Zuko who plays the village curate the Reverend Arthur Morley our story and it bears none but a coincident

The resemblance to H. G. Wells' famous short novel, The Invisible Man, is by John Dixon Carr and is called The Man Without a Body, tonight's tale of suspense. If you have been with us on these Tuesday nights, you will know that suspense is compounded of mystery and suspicion and dangerous adventure in this series of tales calculated to intrigue

you. And so it is, with a man without a body, and the performances of John Sutton and George Zuko, we again hope to keep you in. A spend. A lonely beach of low-fight sandhills, edged by the surf of the North Sea.

From the beach, rousing as it is roused for ten centuries, lies the village of Aldbridge in Suffolk. There is the sea wall now defaced by air-age shelters, and there are the rolling grain field, but that's quite colleges, the spire of St. Duke's Church above the oak trees, ancient and bell-haunted, lost among hedgerows. This village could never cause consternation in

London newspaper offices, and yet on that warm night nearly four years ago. This time it's really happened, a man without a body completely invisible. Don't be right. Don't be right. Look at this dispatch. Rain of terror in Suffolk Village.

Has another of H.G. Wells' romances come true? An invisible man. I can't believe it. What's the matter with that village? The old one's static. Mr. George Wellman, builder, states that as he was returning home along the main road from Bévissique, Edmond...

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